Mike Huckabee is going after Glenn Beck hard over a disagreement between the two conservatives over Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign.

Huckabee’s defense of that campaign had made him a target for Beck, who accused him of being a “progressive” for siding with the first lady. Huckabee hit back Thursday, saying Beck just wants to “create yet another ‘boogey man’ hiding in the closet.”

"This week Glenn Beck has taken to his radio show to attack me as a progressive, which he has said is the same as a ‘cancer’ and a ‘Nazi,’” Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor whose own battles with his weight are well known, wrote on his HuckPAC website. “What did I do that apparently caused him to link me to a fatal disease and a form of government that murdered millions of innocent Jews?

"I had the audacity — not of hope — but the audacity to give respect to the efforts of first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign to address childhood obesity,” Huckabee fumed. “I’m no fan of her husband’s policies for sure, but I have appreciated her efforts that Beck misrepresented — either out of ignorance or out of a deliberate attempt to distort them to create yet another ‘boogey man’ hiding in the closet that he and only he can see. The first lady’s approach is about personal responsibility — not the government literally taking candy from a baby’s mouth. He seems to fancy himself a prophet of sorts for his linking so many people and events together to describe a massive global conspiracy for pretty much everything.”